Folder labelled Test Tube Babies / Use of Foetuses and Foetal Material for Research

Scope and Content

The folder contains newspaper cuttings about test tube babies and the use of foetuses for research, and correspondence about fertilisation and embryology. There is also a photocopy of the 1967 Abortion Act; a working paper about abortion written by the Advisory Committee on Church and Society (the committee is part of the Council of Churches for Wales); and a report of the Advisory Group on The Use of Foetuses and Foetal Material for Research (published by the Department of Health and Social Security).